Bill Black is Director of Liquid 6 Image Design Ltd, the company that created and maintains this website. He opened his own house for 5 years as part of the Beyond the Level trail exhibiting between 8 and 23 artists each year. He has also exhibited in houses in the Hanover trail and Independent venues as well as local galleries.
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Over the course of the next three weeks I’ll be attempting to put together a guide to Open Houses. This series of articles has come about in response to the large number of emails we’ve received here at Open House Online since the site launched last April.

What they made me realise was that the Open House trails have fallen into the common trap of something that evolves over a period of time, rather than something that is created from scratch - namely, that all parties involved assume that everyone outside those immediately involved in opening their homes knows what the Open Houses are and how they work.